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From the McKinsey Global Institute comes this February 2012 report “Sustaining Vietnam’s growth: the productivity challenge“. In the preface the authors note that although Vietnam has made significant progress with its economy since the 1980s “today the economy faces complex challenges that require a transition to a productivity-driven growth trajectory”. The report outlines the reasons for […]

This is a pretty major report from the World Bank and the Development Research Center of China’s State Council. The main report is a massive 9MB, but the website has an executive summary as well as links to supporting documents etc. These are : “Completing the transition to a market economy; Accelerating the pace of open […]

From the New America Foundation (a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States) comes this October 2011 report. It is organised in five parts, starting off with an overview which provides the background to the bust and bubble events of […]